Why did I have only one visitor yesterday (June 20) but two views (one view in
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Why did I have only one visitor yesterday (June 20) but two views (one view in U.S. and one in South Africa?
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I’m also having a problem with the stats. I think my views are correct but my visitors seemed to quit updating around 5PM yesterday. From 5 to midnight, I posted a new blog and received the expected 100+ views but received no new visitors.
Stats aren’t looking good for today either. I’m getting the expected views from yesterday’s post but only have one visitor, who happened to be in multiple countries on opposite side of the planet.
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@boblitton
@scbsradiolombok
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Hi, “Timethief”!
Long time, haven’t heard from. I see you’ve still got that wayward wave over your eye.
Thanks for the timely reply.
Bob -
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Hi @boblitton
It looks like your stats for yesterday have updated to show two views and two visitors. However, there is often a different number of views than visitors. This is because readers can view your posts in the Reader without visiting your site. And a visitor may view more than one page on your site when they visit.
Does that clarify things? Let me know if you have any other questions!
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@boblitton
May I please inform you a bit further on this?Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Provided you are logged in when visiting, your own views are not recorded on any public blog you registered.
Our stats are page view stats. Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.
Likes and shares and comments and reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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Thank you both.
I just now tried to send a lengthy reply, but an “Oops!” 404 message from Google popped up saying they could not complete my request because of “caches” and “cookies” which I need to clear.
The last time I did that, the process wiped out a bunch of data in my computer, so, “No thanks!”
Hope this message goes through.
Your can terminate the thread if you wish.
Thanks again.
Bob
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